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107–9, 108 , 117, 125–26, 128–29,
132–34, 134 ; Man of Steel , 77–79, 78 ,
105; The Matrix , 19–20, 20 ; Pi , 259–61,
260 , 292–94, 293 ; Pleasantville , 295–97,
296 , 340; Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
, 195–96, 196 , 226–27; The Truman
Show , 51–52, 52 , 60, 75–76, 76 . See also
Out on a Limb
1 John, 141, 151–53, 157. See also Gospel of
John
first thought (Ennoia), 96, 101, 149
Five Seals, 223–24
Flavia Sophe, 253–56, 254
Flora, 239–42
food, 90, 114, 308, 314–15
forbidden acts, 268
foreigners, 88
Forethought (Protennoia), 96; Trimorphic
Protennoia, 177–78, 224
forgiveness, 37–38
freedom, 4–5, 129–32, 279–80
Fuller, Margaret, 348
fundamentalism, 9–11
Galatians, 127
Garden of Eden, 91, 93, 96–97, 207
Geb, 56–57
Gemini, 212
gems. See amulets
gender, 252. See also women
General Zod (fictional character), 78, 94,
105
Genesis, 62–63, 122
Gentiles, 113–15, 119–20
George Parker (fictional character), 295
ghost ( etimmu ), 24
gifts, 119, 130–31
Gilgamesh, 24
gnosis. See knowledge
Gnostic cures, 171; dramas as, 172 , 172–75,
174 . See also initiations
Gnosticism, 3, 13, 15; attributes of, 11–12;
awakenings of, 347–50; death of,
345; diversity among, 66, 203, 287;
emergence of, 14; exclusivity among,
66, 71–72, 267–68; fundamentalism
compared to, 9–11; future of, 350–51;
identity of, 5–8; renaissance of, 16–18;
survival of, 17–18, 345–47; term use of,
5–6, 53; violence and, 16, 83, 297–98,
340. See also specific topics
God, 56–57, 334, 343; convention and,
12–13; cracks in, 91–93, 232; death
from, 124–26; as evil, 142–44, 154,
222–23, 226–27, 265; the Good, 66,
348; the Good Father, 213–15; as hermaphrodite,
84, 96–97, 166, 216, 247;
Hermetics and, 86, 88–89; humans as,
64–65, 79, 84; of Jews, 126, 142–46,
153–54, 209, 244; knowledge of, 4–5,
11–14, 70, 117–18, 194, 292–94; as
light, 95, 122; Mother, 96–97, 101–3,
182, 247; names of, 54–55, 213–16,
248; One, 121–23, 126–28; silence
related to, 182, 187; spirit and, 11–12,
62–64; true man and, 266–67; universality
of, 216, 288; vowels and, 187–88;
as woman, 133–34, 134 . See also Father
God; YHWH
goddesses, 177–78, 213–15, 224
gods, 28, 172–73, 281–82; conquest of,
67–68; contentment of, 22–23; as
demons, 71–73, 79; fertility, 213, 214 ;
politics and, 73, 284; Roman military
and, 72–74
God the Good, 66, 348. See also God
golden calf, 120
Good Father, 213–15. See also God
Gospel of John, 137–38, 307; Apostolic
Catholics and, 139–42, 151–55, 160–61;
Cerinthus and, 156–60; disciples in,
147; dualism in, 143–47, 156; 8:44
in, 142–44, 146, 152–54, 160; Gaius
and, 158–59; interpretation of, 141,
269–70, 347; Montanism and, 158–59;
Samaritans in, 147–48; Simonians in,
148–51, 160; translation of, 142–44,
160; undoing of, 141–44; worship in,
145–46
Gospel of Judas, 298–99, 299 ; disciples
in, 302–3; Ialdabaoth in, 300–303, 301 ;
recovery of, 349–50; sacrifice in, 304–5
Gospel of Mark, 110, 138, 154, 303
Gospel of Mary, 349
Gospel of Matthew, 112, 265–66, 325
Gospel of Philip, 236